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Posts tagged with 'disease' and 'cdc' at MetaFilter.Mon, 29 Sep 2014 12:25:11 -0800Mon, 29 Sep 2014 12:25:11 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60Thinking about diseasehttp://www.metafilter.com/143173/Thinking%2Dabout%2Ddisease
<a href="http://www.everydaysociologyblog.com/2014/09/ebola-and-the-construction-of-fear.html">Ebola and the Construction of Fear</a> by Karen Sternheimer (Everyday Sociology)
<blockquote>"Sociologist Barry Glassner, author of <i>The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things</i>, explains how misguided panics are not just benign opportunities to prevent something horrible, but can divert attention and public funds away from more likely threats. He notes:
<blockquote><i>Panic-driven public spending generates over the long term a pathology akin to one found in drug addicts. The money and attention we fritter away on our compulsions, the less we have available for our real needs, which consequently grow larger (p. xvii).</i></blockquote></blockquote> <blockquote>"Fear of a 'new' threat (Ebola has been <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/ebola-factsheet.pdf">documented since 1976</a>; it was even the subject of the 1995 film <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114069/"><i>Outbreak</i></a>, in which the virus becomes airborne) can heighten attention and news coverage. It can also distract us from more immediate threats to our health.
"What virus is likely to kill at least 3,000 Americans this year? The flu."</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/08/economist-explains-10">Why Ebola won't become a pandemic</a> &ndash; <i>The Economist</i>
<a href="http://www.onthemedia.org/story/no-ebola-not-coming-us/">No, Ebola is not coming to the U.S.</a> (5 min 15 sec) &ndash; NPR's <i>On the Media</i> &ndash; Host Bob Garfield interviewing Dr Daniel Bausch.
<a href="http://nnlm.gov/sea/newsletter/2014/08/news-you-can-use-trusted-resources-on-all-about-ebola/">News You Can Use: Trusted Resources on Ebola</a>, by Sheila Snow-Croft, Public Health Coordinator, <i>National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Southeastern/Atlantic Region</i>. Snippet: <i>"Good information can be your best defense."</i>
Previously: <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/143001/Non-ebola-care">Non-ebola care</a>, <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/141433/Ebola-reaches-Nigerias-largest-city">Ebola reaches Nigeria's largest city</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.143173Mon, 29 Sep 2014 12:25:11 -0800joseph conrad is fully awesomeNature's Perfect Killing Machine Can Be Killed With Soaphttp://www.metafilter.com/140680/Natures%2DPerfect%2DKilling%2DMachine%2DCan%2DBe%2DKilled%2DWith%2DSoap
<a href="http://www.randomhouse.ca/hazlitt/feature/natures-most-perfect-killing-machine">Ebola is nightmare fuel: a biological doomsday device conspiring with our bodies to murder us in uniquely gruesome fashion. It's also killed fewer than 2,000 people. How has a virus with such a modest body count so fiercely captured the darkest corners of our imagination?</a> - Leigh Cowart for Haziltt. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.140680Tue, 08 Jul 2014 12:41:48 -0800The WhelkPertussis Epidemic — Washington, 2012http://www.metafilter.com/120319/Pertussis%2DEpidemic%2DWashington%2D2012
<em>Since mid-2011, a substantial rise in pertussis [Whooping Cough] cases has been reported in the state of Washington. In response to this increase, the Washington State Secretary of Health declared a pertussis epidemic on April 3, 2012. By June 16, the reported number of cases in Washington in 2012 had reached 2,520 (37.5 cases per 100,000 residents), <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6128a1.htm">a 1,300% increase compared with the same period in 2011 and the highest number of cases reported in any year since 1942 [Make sure you don't miss Figure 1]</a>.</em> <a href="http://genome.fieldofscience.com/2012/07/anti-vaccination-propagandists-help.html">Commentators</a> <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/07/24/washington-pertussis-outbreak-is-very-very-bad/">are already</a> <a href="http://io9.com/5928722/this-graph-of-whooping-cough-cases-in-washington-state-should-scare-the-crap-out-of-you">drawing corellations</a> with the fact that <a href="http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2015215221_vaccines03m.html">Washington State leads the nation in vaccine non-compliance</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/health/policy/whooping-cough-epidemic-hits-washington-state.html?_r=1">Washington State's recent cutbacks in public health funding</a>, and<a href="http://www.insurance.wa.gov/legislative/reports/2011-uninsured-report.pdf"> increases in the number of uninsured (PDF)</a>. <em>Valid vaccination history was available for 1,829 of 2,006 (91.2%) patients aged 3 months–19 years. Overall, 758 of 1,000 (75.8%) patients aged 3 months–10 years were up-to-date with the childhood diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis (DTaP) doses. Receipt of Tdap was documented in 97 of 225 (43.1%) patients aged 11–12 years and in 466 of 604 (77.2%) patients aged 13–19 years. Estimated DTaP coverage in Washington among children aged 19–35 months was 93.2% for ≥3 doses and 81.9% for ≥4 doses in 2010; Tdap coverage in adolescents aged 13–17 years was estimated at 70.6%</em><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6033a1.htm">*</a>
This means that while vaccination still provides individual protection - with unvaccinated children being eight times more likely to get whooping cough and, when they do, become more infectious, have stronger symptoms, are sick longer and are at greater risk of severe outcomes, including hospitalization - communal failures to vaccinate have allowed gaps in herd immunity to expose vaccinated children to more pertussis than the vaccine can provide absolute protection against <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11485646">while also simultaneously breeding vaccine resistant strains</a>.
Here is disturbing footage of what pertussis looks like in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8yUSV4oqoU">12 week old</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yWvGz5nDZk">6 month old</a> babies, as well as <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ5jf-5MobE">various children</a>, whooping cough is back. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.120319Thu, 27 Sep 2012 03:08:08 -0800BlasdelbMore Americans are Surviving Cancerhttp://www.metafilter.com/101445/More%2DAmericans%2Dare%2DSurviving%2DCancer
According to <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6009a1.htm?s_cid=mm6009a1_w">new data released by the CDC yesterday,</a> more Americans are <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/03/10/134429587/nearly-12-million-americans-are-cancer-survivors">surviving cancer</a> thanks to advances in increased <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/CancerPreventionAndTreatment/cdc-20-americans-cancer-survivor/story?id=13104141">early detection and treatment</a>. CDC analysis shows an unprecedented 20% increase in survival rates between 2001 and 2007, which is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/health/11cancer.html">nearly a quadruple increase since 1971</a>. * One in 20 US citizens (approximately 11.7 million people) is a cancer survivor.
* One in five of them are over the age of 65.
* Survivors are more likely to be female than male (54% vs. 46%).
* <a href="http://www.medpagetoday.com/HematologyOncology/OtherCancers/25292">"22% of cancer survivors had been diagnosed with breast cancer; 19% with prostate cancer; and 10% with colorectal cancer. Those three cancers accounted for slightly more than half of all cancer diagnoses."</a>
From the <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6009a1.htm?s_cid=mm6009a1_w">CDC link</a>: <i><blockquote>Similar to previous reports, this analysis found that the majority of cancer survivors are females and persons aged ≥65 years. Women are more likely to be survivors because cancers among women (e.g., breast or cervical cancer) usually occur at a younger age and can be detected early and treated successfully; in addition, women have a longer life expectancy than men. Among men, a substantial number of cancer survivors had prostate cancer, which is diagnosed more commonly among older men. The large proportion of cancer survivors aged ≥65 years reflects the increase in cancer risk with age and the fact that more persons with diagnoses of cancer are surviving ≥5 years.</blockquote></i> tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.101445Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:43:04 -0800zarqCLAP on! CLAP off!http://www.metafilter.com/31397/CLAP%2Don%2DCLAP%2Doff
<a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040224/325/emux4.html">Half of young Americans to get STDs</a> - so say several collected studies by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and others. Can the Bush administration's plan to <a href="http://www.kesq.com/global/story.asp?s=1643835&ClientType=Printable">double abstinence-only spending</a> solve this problem? Or can the argument be made that keeping condoms out of the classrooms causes more STDs than prevents? tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.31397Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:36:07 -0800wfrgmsMedical Alerthttp://www.metafilter.com/24326/Medical%2DAlert
<a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars/">CDC posts medical alert for atypical pneumonia.</a> There is travel alert for those traveling from Asian countries around and in China. It seems that this type of pnenumonia has been found in North America. Symptoms include fever and hard-of-breathing. <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=health&cat=antibiotics_and_microbiology">More articles about the disease here.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.24326Sat, 15 Mar 2003 21:09:51 -0800azileretsisDéja vuhttp://www.metafilter.com/4580/Dja%2Dvu
<a href="http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/ideas/Aids/">Déja vu</a> <br>"A mysterious epidemic, hitherto unknown, which had struck terror into all hearts by the rapidity of its spread, the ravages it made, and the apparent helplessness of the physicians to cure it." — on syphillis, in the 16th centruy.
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Highlights from the CBC's 1996 <i>Ideas</i> shows on AIDS in historical perspective, available in real audio for downloading or streaming. I remember stopping the car and listening to the whole thing four years ago: "The programs underline how a whole series of biological, psychological and social factors shape the public's perception of disease, and society's response to it. The strengths and limits of past approaches to detecting sexually transmitted diseases are explored, in order to shed light on approaches that could be used to control AIDS today." tag:metafilter.com,2000:site.4580Fri, 01 Dec 2000 10:50:12 -0800syllogeFour out of 10 people mistakenly believehttp://www.metafilter.com/4571/Four%2Dout%2Dof%2D10%2Dpeople%2Dmistakenly%2Dbelieve
<a href="http://www.jsonline.com/alive/news/nov00/aids01113000.asp">Four out of 10 people mistakenly believe</a> it is possible to get HIV by sharing a drinking glass or being coughed or sneezed on by an infected person. The survey, released Thursday, was conducted by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "It's scary that so many people are still so ignorant of what
causes HIV-AIDS," said Marty Algaze, a spokesman for
the Gay Men's Health Crisis. "Almost 20 years into this
epidemic, it's disturbing that people think you could still
get it from casual contact." tag:metafilter.com,2000:site.4571Fri, 01 Dec 2000 03:15:33 -0800jhiggy